Our 50-place private day nursery in the centre of Salisbury has an excellent reputation and our feeder reception teachers frequently comment on how well our children do as they hit school.
But I found the comments made by Helen Penn on the level of education in early years in 'Put in the shade' (10 April) extremely demotivating. She suggests that we need a policy to pull together the strings of care and education, but surely the Foundation Stage curriculum does this excellently? We pride ourselves on completely combining care and education.
We have happy, developing children and happy, developing staff. My team are trained nursery nurses who are more than competent to do their own planning and provide a stimulating learning environment.
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